Shipping-tag.



No. 663,355. Pafeniea nec. 4, |900. s. w. msm..

SHIPPING TAG.

(Application tiled Aug'. 31, 1899.) (No Model.)

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llNiTnp STATES PATENT Orricn.

GEORGE IV. MCGILL, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

SHIPPING-TAG.

SECIFICATON forming part of Letters atent No. 663,355, dated December 4, 1900.

Application filed August 3l, 1899. Serial No. 729,071. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, GEORGE WV. MCGILL, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shipping-Tags, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class or type of shipping-tags wherein a doubled tyingstring is connected with an address-card of comparatively thick or tough paper and the two l'ree ends of the string are knotted at or near their point of attachment to enable the addressed card to be tied to the tying-string of or otherwise connected with a bundle or package designed to be expressed or shipped. The common or well-known shipping-tag has the string passed through an eyelet near one end and is knotted, so that the two free ends can be tied to a package. Such construction is objectionable in that the card or tag is not reinforced and is more or less readily torn away at or inad Vance of the eyelet and is lost. Various methods have been proposed to reinforce or strengthen the address-card and secure an efficient attachment of the doubled or two-end tying-string thereto; but all are more or less objectionable in that they do not successfully accomplish the desired result, and the cost of manufacturing the tags with their doubled or two-end string is considerably increased, which has resulted in their not comingl into extensive or general use, although much desired from the p'oint of View of strength, d nrability, and safety in expressing or shipping packages where the sole address is on the tag tied to the tyingstring or otherwise secured thereto.

The objects of my invention are to avoid the objections hereinbefore referred to; to secure all the required reinforcing and strengthening of the card; to obtain a permanent, durable, effective, and strong connection ofthe .doubled or two-end string with the card without appreciably increasing the cost of manufacture; to enable the card, if desired, to be made of a single thickness of material, such as paper, and to so arrange -the string that while reinforcing and strengthening the card it extends from the center of one end thereof as two strands for conveniently connecting the tag to the package.

To accomplish all the objects, my invention consists in a shippingetag possessing the characteristic features of construction here inafter described and claimed, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a plan View of my new and improved shipping-tag. Fig. 2 is a sectional View taken on the line 2 2, Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a plan View showing a moditied arrangement of the strengthening tying-string; and Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on t-he line 4 et, Fig. 3.

In order to enable my invention to be clearly understood, I will now describe the same in detail, referring to the drawings, wherein the numeral 5 indicates a shipping-tag, preferably composed of a single layer of comparatively lhick and tough paper of any desirable configuration or outline. As shown in Fig. l, the tag is a substantially rectangular card having the tv wo corners at one end cut away,

at 6. The median line of the card is constructed with a plurality of stringholes, as at 7, 8, and 9, the end holes preferably containing metallic eyelets. The tying-string is doubled-to form two strands l0 and l2, which are laced back and forth through the stringholes and knotted together in or at the eyeleted stringhole 7 near one end of the card, from whence the two ends 13 and 14 of the doubled string extend any required length to enable them to be tied to a package, which is ordinarily effected by properly7 securing them to the cord used to tie up the package. The two strands l0 and l2 are laced through the string-holes, as stated, and therefore a part of each strand extends along a part of one surface of the card and thence along a part of the opposite surface, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The doubled string is drawn comparatively taut before being knotted together in the eyeleted string hole 7, and consequently the string reinforces and strengthens the card centrally throughout its entire length and prevents the card being torn from its attaching-string, particularly at or near the IOO 19, while centrally between the ends, near each side edge, is a string-hole 20. Thedoubled string 21 is laced back and forth through these string-holes, and portions of the string lie against opposite sides of the card and run transversely and longitudinally thereof", thus reinforcing and strengthening the card around all its marginal portions. -The two strands are brought together and knotted at or near the center string-hole 18 at one end of the card, and preferably the two tying ends 22 and 23 of the string are knotted, as at 24, or otherwise fastened together contiguous to the end of the card. The two ends of the string serve to att-ach the tag to the packageas, for instance, by tying them to the cord used in tying the package-wrapper.

Inasmuch as the string is doubled and bears atits bend or bends against the edge of the string hole or holes in the end opposite the end where the card is tied to the package, any longitudinal pull on the card is distributed throughout its length and not at a single point at one end, in consequence of which the string cannot under ordinary conditions or circumstances be pulled outof the card or the latter torn from the string.

The interlacing ofa tying-string wit-h a shipping-tag is particularly advantageous and useful in obtaining an eiiective, simple, and comparatively inexpensive reinforcing and strengthening of the tag and avoiding the liability of tearing the saine from the string at the end which is tied to the package.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim isl. As an improved article of manufacture, a shipping-tag having string-holes in its oppo site end portions and intermediate the same, and a tying-string interlaced through said string-holes and secured to permanently fix it to the tag, substantially as described.

2. A shipping-tag having string-holes and a tying-string laced back and forth through said stringholes and lying against the opposite surfaces of the tag from one end portion to the opposite end portion to reinforce and strengthen the tag practically its full length, and secured to permanently fix it relatively to the tag, substantially as described.

3. A shipping-tag having a tying-string interlaced therewith at each end portion and between the endinterlacings, extending along opposite sides of the tag substantiallyits entire length and knotted at one end portion to permanently attach and fix it relatively to the tag, substantially as described.

4. A shipping-tag having string-holes in its opposite end portions and intermediate thereof, and a doubled tying-string laced back and forth through said holes longitudinally of the tag and its two tying end portions knotted together at one end portion of the tag, substantially as described.

5. A shipping-tag having string-holes in its opposite end portions and intermediate thereof, and a doubled tying-string laced through said string-holes and its two end portions brought together and secured at one end portion of the tag to permanently fix the string doubled relatively thereto and provide two tying-string ends at one end of the tag, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE W. MCGILL.

Witnesses:

W. HARRY MGGILL, T. S. ATWATER, Jr. 

